New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-21
vember 10. she would have been due In this city
4 week from next Saturday.
WHAT THE GENERAL AGENT SAID ABOUT 1T.


william II Van den Toorn, general agent OF the
Rotterdam Line of steamships, was seen by re"pf'cr
at his home No. $40 Bergen ave, Jersey CITY last
evening lie said that his first information OF Inc
accident was aimed In tho following caoio
which he had received at o'clock YESTERDAY morning
from the agent of tho Netherlands steam Navigation
Company at Rotterdam:
tn w II Van den Toorn, Ncw-York:
The steamship schoIten sunk rear Dover through
co,itsion with unknown steamer. About fifty saved
by me- DOCTOR 6rS pr Kyme the engineer
and tho second mate. Have sent Isp'aln ,nco
MIR Krnmmeich TO Dover TO render such ASSISTANCE
possible. .oo
Mr. Van den Toorn explained that Lawrence
Geuken mentioned in the dispatch. Is his cohhuch'a'
assistant here. and that he was returning rom S'
10 Rotterdam: that Captain Baker IS inc REGULAR
commanding officer Of the SchOlten ana on MS N"a
ton and that Captain Taat, who 1t Is feared Is iot'
was only temporarily in command; MI hiumhc'h
h the New York passenger agent Of the lnc and went
10 Rotterdam on business Of the company.
Mr. Van don Toorn said that he Immediately teie-
craphed to Rotterdam for full lists OF the passengers
and for the names Of all the saved He had A. So'
received no answer TO this telegram, but at ~
o'clock last evening he had received the iolo"l"S
from tho company's offices in Rotterdam
scholten was in collision with steamer Rosa Mary
seventy nine known to be saved Possibly there are
more as Two H SsT and thirty I'VE are missing viii
wire yon full lists are prepared EulNho'o"'
the chief engineer, landed at Scaioid
"The number of passengers and crew on beard sad
Mr. vanden Toorn, according to the best OF my III.
formation was hundred and fourteen all told W
these four were cabin passengers about fifteen second
cabin, and hundred and forty four storage inc
officers and crew numbered abont hity nave no III
formation as yer about the coding steamer the Rosa
Mary. but believe that she must have struck the
scholten amldshps and close to tho engines ana she
probably went down in a few minutes. Besides tap
tain Taat there was Chief Officer stcllborg ana TWO
other mates, Chief Engineer EdNhovcn and three oher
engineers DIR. Aymc the ships doctor. The
names of the purscr and steward cannot give
New four-hundrcd horse power steel boilers wrrc
nut into the W. A. SchOcn last year. and her paSscn-
ger accommodations refttcd and renewed through
out She was Inspected by the ntcd States inspectors
for Foreign Vessels last July and full certificates gwen
She was provided with six life boats ami iour HE
RATS. Sho had seven bulkhcad compartments. Amer
the last ovcrhaung She capable OF carrying Sixty
first class passengers.
"The cargo of the lost vessel made up prin-
cipay of sumatra tobacco Rhine wine. gin dry goods
cheese behring's pickles and iron wire. and was val
ued at 100000 presume that II was pretty fully
insured by the consignccs and shippers.
The cost of building the schocn was $4,000
Her huh and machinery were insured for sl72ooO-
mostly in English, French and Datch companies.
A SKETCH OF CAPTAIN TAAr.
Captain John IIcndricl Taat, whom fear IS
the lost one or our oltNl anu W'>i VdlaH'
He was unfortunate before. and then he was
commanding the steamship Edsm. which lost
and from the cause. The idhm I'm september
ls-2. was in collision with the steamship Lrranio
of The Wilson Line from Ilul and was sunk iofn-
naicly no llvcs were lost \ new vessel as then ln
building which finished about three months
af,erward The new ship christencd tho l,dam
and the command given 10 Captain Taat. -" has
brought Il, no bad luck although named for her IN
fortunate sister. Captain Taat thirty eight years
old tall, slender. neloohing man, with curling
brown hair and fu brown beard. lie has always
been popular officer, especially with passengers II
seems peculiarly unfortunate that he should lose MS
life while in temporary command Of the Hohollcn This
i the second escape Of the kind that Captain Haher
the regular captain of the Scholtcn has had In Oc
tobcr Is74, he took his holiday when in command Of
the steamer MaaSdam. Daring his leave Of absence
another captain put in command and the Maa,
dam was lost. Captain Taat leaves VITO and i've
children in Amsterdam.
OTHER LOSSES or THE LINE.
Ths IS the nh loss Of the Kind that tho Netherlands
Company has suffered. In September. l--2 ia" first
Edau. a. ! have stated. lost. In september.
l-s3 the Rotterdam was lost. In July, l--i. TIC
Amsterdam. and I'm October OF the year the
Maasdam went down In all these disasters Only
two lives were lost, and that was
In the Amsterdam accident sincerely wish that
might be able to say that ltle loss OF lie oc-
CURED in This last disaster / fec" sure. however
TINT ii VIII be found that blame attaches TO ihr
capt ain any Of the other officers am confident
too that we shall hear that worc Of those sup
posed to be missing have been saved The fart lha
chef Engineer EdiXhOvcn came 10 shore at ScAi"d'
a distance Of not less than fifty miles from Dover
gives hone ina, a large number Of Others VIII I've
picked MP perhaps at long distances from mo S,'hG
Of the collision We may not get tho names oil all
the saved for several days
Henry ". O. Edye. the well known and highlyrc
spccrcd head of the firm Of funch. Edyc " CO.. III"
general freight agents Of tho Nctheriand Lin. was
found at hl, apartn, at No - rih ave- last oven
Ing lie said that IA, had heard the news of th' loss
Of the scholIen with sincere regret and with great
surprise for he had always regarded her as vessel
capable Of outriding any tempest. The accident In
which She had gone down IN denS' f. ( by COLLISION
was one. however, which It would seem impossible to
provide against. Mr. Edye expressed HEARTFELT grief
at the probable death Of Captain Tsat of whom no
spoke In terms If personal affection and respect and
said that be especially syupaihzed with he captains
stricken family. lie said that the vessel had proved
valuable one to the company. Tho names Of tho
sister-shlps were the r. Caisnd, the Zair dam, tho
Edam the Iccrdaul. and the Rotterdam Tho present
value Of tho scholtcn was, h considered about
10000 pounds although her cost in 1874 had been
much more. Mr.. Edge hoped that when tho facts
all came to be known the l,ss of lfc would prove
greatly less than fcarei lie was anAiously
awaiting fuller particulars. Neither Mr.. Edye nor
Mr. Vanden Tootn have any letters TO be delivered to
passengers OIL board
DESCRIPTION OF THR LOST vfssfI.
Tho W. A. scholten was an iron steamer,
barkentne riggod and omit by l.. Napier sons.
Of Glasgow IA 1874. She 3jl feet In length, ~
feet and inches BEAM with three decks. and depth
of 81 feet and inches. she had ncioscd engine
and seven watcr-tight bukhcads, two cylinders Of
30 and - inches with 4e-incb strobe. In 1910 She
underwent a thorough ovcrhauling and In May, 1850,
and again in April, 1884, She went into the docis for
repairs In March, 1896. a new boilo. placed IN
her Her engines had capacity Of 400 horse power.
WEII-KNOWN MARINE DISASTERS.
A LONG DFAIU ROLL OF DROWNED PAssENGERs-
SHIPS NEVER HEARD FROM.
The greatest marine disaster OF the present century
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